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[Dan]

USA Today says American dad is so-so

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2005-02-03-american-dad_x.htm

Huh, I didn't realize the show wasn't continuing right after this. So the pilot airs after the Super Bowl but then the show doesn't return until May, where it'll run back-to-back with Family Guy. I'm not sure actively drawing even more comparisons between the two is the wisest choice.

 

[Shouta]

Except, she was talking about Fantasia, not newer Disney films. I still think it's retarded to pit all of Japanese animation against one American flick, though. It's like she went out of her way to offend Anime.

I was specifically responding to Jett's quote.

Eh, even the highest budget anime film ever(Spirited Away) has a relatively low amount of frames compared to a recent Disney film like Tarzan. There's just no comparison on a technical level.

Budgets are a bad way of judging anything for a film other than success/profit, heh.

I don't think I've ever considered pure frame count to be a sign of superior quality for an animated film. That would leave out complexity, detail, coloring, and a mess of other things which needs to be taken into account as well. Older disney material is great but saying its technically because of amount of frames is pretty short-sighted.

As for crudely drawn, I can't really agree. As mentioned just beforehand, there are quite a handful less frames in any given anime than in any Disney flick. Also of note are the simplistic/utilitarian art that most anime use.

It's a style, one that's simpler...dunno about crude, but it definitely is simpler.

Simpler? That's the first time I've ever heard anyone say that about anime . I've always seen Anime > Disney/Western in terms of complexity and detail per frame while Disney/Western > Anime for actual frames that are animated from folks I've talked to. Mind you, I'm talking about films and not general animation like TV shows.

 

[Lil' Dice]

Because 'anime' is a single entity that surely dare not compete to the best Western produced animated film of all time!

All aboard the ignorance train!

You're taking this a bit too personal. The sooner you accept that truth, the better off you'll be......all aboard the disillusioned train!